Moving Uncompressed Video Faster than Real Time

Economical methods are now available to move uncompressed digital video faster than real time in networked environments. Using an ANSI standard Fibre Channel interface on a Silicon Graphics workstation with optimized hardware and software, both computer-to-computer and computer-to-disk communications are possible which can transfer data at rates up to 640 megabits/second. By incorporating these interfaces, post-production facilities can achieve order-of-magnitude improvements when accessing and transferring large video files, and can gain the ability to move streams of digital video data faster than real time for collaborative creative efforts. Video server applications can use these interfaces for both storage access and communications for transporting up to 100 compressed streams simultaneously through a single port.

Published

1995-09

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00485

ISBN

978-1-61482-923-2